I think they're saying that if African countries keep supporting genocidal maniacs, the climate changes will finish the job by making their farming even less productive.
Sorry, I know that's off-topic, except to point out that global warming isn't the only reason for poor harvests in Africa.
Add more CO2 and more infra red gets absorbed and the atmosphere (all other things being equal - though thats not a given) gets warmer.
Well, if all else were equal, we'd be at the heat death of the universe. Anyway, all else is clearly not equal. Add more CO2, and you get more vigorous plant growth, resulting in more plants that can reproduce; lather, rinse, repeat. I'm not saying that everything is OK, but neither do I think we're 100% doomed, either. Perhaps something like Kyoto, but that includes the enormous industrializing countries, could still help out.
As reluctant as Sun has been to test the GPL waters, I can't imagine them diving right in to the GPLv3 unknown. If anything, perhaps, they might:
use the "version 2 or later clause" (unlikely), or
use version 2, and go FSF-style and make contributors assign copyright on new code back to Sun - leaving them the option to migrate en masse at a later date once version 3 gets a bit more polish.
I think those are the only remotely possible options at this point.
I think it's the whole principle that he's against.
I understand and agree. So, lie. You have no relationship with them, other than that you're trying to do a nice thing, right? I see nothing in that arrangement that obligates you to being honest about your identity.
What stopped me was that the feedback form required me to submit my email address with the feedback and the feedback page's EULA had something like this in there: "we might use your address to send occasionaly information about our services".
Boy, that's a tough break. If only there were some technological method that would allow you to put a fake email address in the form, or some free webbased email account you could sign up for and then discard immediately afterward.
No, sir, once they outlawed Hotmail and made it physically impossible to type "root@localhost" into web forms, the terrorists won.
When a mathematician or physicist uses the adjective "general", it means that us mere mortals aren't going to understand it even if we think we do. It's like a code word that means that you shouldn't be tempted to draw an analogy between the world as you understand it and the hypothesis being explained, because it just won't work.
I think Einstein did a good job of visualizing the 4th dimension (or space-time). I work in the time domain myself, for instance when I compose music.
Sorry, but that's still not right. Yes, time is a dimension, but it's not your typical spatial metric like left/right, up/down, forward/backward, ana/kata (fourth dimension), etc.
A dimension "is a parameter or measurement required to define the characteristics of an object" (wikipedia) so i tend to look at things like color, taste or emotion as other "dimensions"
No. A physical interpretation of a dimension is a direction you can move in. We can't visualize a fourth physical dimension of travel any more than a creature who lived in a two dimensional plane world could visualize the direction "up from the plane / down from the plane".
Many primary care physicians (in contrast to many rheumatologists) feel that fibromyalgia is not an actual disease at all. [...] Some physicians consider fibromyalgia to be a "diagnosis of last resort," conferred upon a patient when a provider is otherwise unable to explain a patient's constellation of symptoms. However, this view is not universally accepted, with many rheumatologists considering fibromyalgia to be an actual disease.
In short, many primary care physicians, and many rheumatologists, do not believe that fibromyalgia is an actual disease. I am not the one arguing this point; I'm merely restating the positions of others. If you believe that the article is incorrect then feel free to edit it or explain your rationale on the discussion page.
If I correctly read the skepticism position there, you're saying that fibromyalgia is completely explainable with other pathologies, correct?
I'm not saying jack, just pointing to a more eloquent version of what I'd heard friends and family imply. I am the wrong person to debate regarding physical or mental illnesses. However, I can relate with some certainty the idea that many doctors do not believe that fibromyalgia is a real illness, or at most that it's real but diagnosed far more often than truly justified (ie, the same as many people believe about ADHD).
I would argue thatchances are that the folks who work graveyard have higher exposure to potentially cancerous materials than your average 9 to fiver.
They compared them directly to their daytime counterparts. They also found that exposure to light prevents melatonin release (or manufacture - I don't remember), and confirmed that the night shift workers had much lower blood levels with no peak during the day when they would be sleeping. They also ran lab tests on rats (I think) and saw that cancerous tumors grew at a rate inversely proportional to the melatonin blood levels. Finally, they saw that the night works had higher cancer rates.
If I seem hesitant, it's because I don't have the article nearby and don't know any more about the study than what was in the article, but they made the gist of it very clear: being awake at night increased some people's chance of getting certain types of cancers.
Oops, I take that back. The full article, along with references is available at Science News. It's much clearer than I could hope to be.
Since fibromyalgia is not universally accepted as actually existing, I'd say anything goes.
Alternatively, since sleep deprivation can induce depression, and fibromyalgia is often symptomatically treated with antidepressants, then it doesn't seem impossible that the two are connected.
Furthermore, last week's Science News had an article about how melatonin seems to block cancer, particularly in women. Since we make and process it mostly at night, we apparently lose its benefits when staying awake then, even if that's our regular pattern. The consequences are that a study noticed something like a 300% increase in cancer among female night shift workers.
All things considered, I'll stick with ol' Ben Franklin's advice.
I sincerly hope that Quickbooks is NOT ported to Linux, and someone else designed a different program that's designed with the Internet and multiple users in mind.
OK, here's another perspective. I basically have to use Quickbooks, because it's what my accountant supports (as in, they send someone to my house to help me whenever I have problems). I'm not a full-time bookkeeper, just someone who needs to do some small business accounting, so it's Good Enough for my needs.
Right now, today, I have to maintain a Win2K box or QEMU setup in order to balance my business books. As ugly as it may be, as poorly written as you say it is, as Internet unfriendly as it is, I have to keep Windows around in order to use it. Porting it to Linux would be nothing but good for me, and probably a whole lot of other people.
Steve is an insane perfectionist who insists upon authoring all of our software in assembly language.
If there's a special pit in hell for evil programmers, then it will probably involve writing GUI code in assembler.
If that's even partially true, then this guy is a jackass. Assembler? That's great (maybe, assuming he can out-optimize a good compiler), but for which chip? Does he have to re-write "all of our software" every time AMD or Intel release a new CPU, or does he just let his customers run the old version which isn't optimized for their processor (thereby defeating the whole purpose)?
If you know what you're doing, and you're smarter than the team who wrote ICC, then hand-tooling a few inner loops is perfectly reasonable. Hand-coding a whole suite of applications, though, points to wholesale toys-in-the-attic OCD-driven insanity.
How could Linus convert it to v3, even if he wanted to?
I've been thinking about this. Does the current kernel source archive still have a list of patches that go back to the original code, so that an interested part could work out who exactly wrote each line of each file?
If so, could he incrementally convert each file by stating that everything he's written is now under the GPLv3, and all new patches must be under that license, then converting each file to "pure v3" when every line has been approved by its respective author or replaced? I'd suspect that quite a few files would probably be "pure" with the signoff of Alan Cox or other high-profile maintainers. Couldn't the rest come along later?
...as has pretty much everyone else, apparently. Whether this provision is good or bad, perhaps some time should be spent rewording it to make its meaning more transparent to the interested reader.
After all, you shouldn't need a lawyer to read a license. Isn't that what we're always criticizing proprietary licenses for? I'm generally a big fan of the FSF, but it seems clear to me that more work needs to be done on this section. No, I can't jump in and offer suggestions; this isn't the kind of thing I'm good at. When multiple intelligent people come up with multiple incompatible interpretations of the same words, though, even I can see a problem.
I could see how 11 year olds could be as advanced (if you can call it that) at math as 18 year olds.
I couldn't. I stayed awake during enough of my psych class in college to learn that we go through quite a few stages of mental development, and one of the last is the one that lets us understand abstract concepts. Until your brain has reached this stage, no amount of teaching, effort, or desire will let you understand advanced math. It's not that you're too young to have the experience, but that your neural circuitry simply can't support the demands.
That's supposedly a pretty well established and accepted theory. I never went past psych 101, though, so don't take my word for it.
Out of curiosity, what did I do to earn a place on your foes list? I only noticed when I was browsing at -1 (I mod down people who hate me) and your posts popped up.
Why, thank you. That phrase goes back a while, though, to when I was stationed in San Diego and explaining to my roommate why the girl who dumped him was not worth losing sleep over. It caught him so off-guard that he forget to be depressed.
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I think they're saying that if African countries keep supporting genocidal maniacs, the climate changes will finish the job by making their farming even less productive.
Sorry, I know that's off-topic, except to point out that global warming isn't the only reason for poor harvests in Africa.
I'm not saying that it hasn't been bad recently, but it looks like it's been pretty hot at other times, too.
Well, if all else were equal, we'd be at the heat death of the universe. Anyway, all else is clearly not equal. Add more CO2, and you get more vigorous plant growth, resulting in more plants that can reproduce; lather, rinse, repeat. I'm not saying that everything is OK, but neither do I think we're 100% doomed, either. Perhaps something like Kyoto, but that includes the enormous industrializing countries, could still help out.
Its not rocket science.
True. Rocket science is much better understood.
It's OK to think that, but you might wanna keep it to yourself. Don't want to be branded a Wikipedaphile, do you?
I think those are the only remotely possible options at this point.
I understand and agree. So, lie. You have no relationship with them, other than that you're trying to do a nice thing, right? I see nothing in that arrangement that obligates you to being honest about your identity.
Boy, that's a tough break. If only there were some technological method that would allow you to put a fake email address in the form, or some free webbased email account you could sign up for and then discard immediately afterward.
No, sir, once they outlawed Hotmail and made it physically impossible to type "root@localhost" into web forms, the terrorists won.
That's all I've got to say about that.
When a mathematician or physicist uses the adjective "general", it means that us mere mortals aren't going to understand it even if we think we do. It's like a code word that means that you shouldn't be tempted to draw an analogy between the world as you understand it and the hypothesis being explained, because it just won't work.
I think Einstein did a good job of visualizing the 4th dimension (or space-time). I work in the time domain myself, for instance when I compose music.
Sorry, but that's still not right. Yes, time is a dimension, but it's not your typical spatial metric like left/right, up/down, forward/backward, ana/kata (fourth dimension), etc.
No. A physical interpretation of a dimension is a direction you can move in. We can't visualize a fourth physical dimension of travel any more than a creature who lived in a two dimensional plane world could visualize the direction "up from the plane / down from the plane".
IAACST (I am a crackpot string theorist)).
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In short, many primary care physicians, and many rheumatologists, do not believe that fibromyalgia is an actual disease. I am not the one arguing this point; I'm merely restating the positions of others. If you believe that the article is incorrect then feel free to edit it or explain your rationale on the discussion page.
I'm not saying jack, just pointing to a more eloquent version of what I'd heard friends and family imply. I am the wrong person to debate regarding physical or mental illnesses. However, I can relate with some certainty the idea that many doctors do not believe that fibromyalgia is a real illness, or at most that it's real but diagnosed far more often than truly justified (ie, the same as many people believe about ADHD).
Some assembly line thing or another.
I would argue thatchances are that the folks who work graveyard have higher exposure to potentially cancerous materials than your average 9 to fiver.
They compared them directly to their daytime counterparts. They also found that exposure to light prevents melatonin release (or manufacture - I don't remember), and confirmed that the night shift workers had much lower blood levels with no peak during the day when they would be sleeping. They also ran lab tests on rats (I think) and saw that cancerous tumors grew at a rate inversely proportional to the melatonin blood levels. Finally, they saw that the night works had higher cancer rates.
If I seem hesitant, it's because I don't have the article nearby and don't know any more about the study than what was in the article, but they made the gist of it very clear: being awake at night increased some people's chance of getting certain types of cancers.
Oops, I take that back. The full article, along with references is available at Science News. It's much clearer than I could hope to be.
On the other hand, none of them positively rule it out. They just haven't seen enough evidence to trust it as a diagnosis.
Alternatively, since sleep deprivation can induce depression, and fibromyalgia is often symptomatically treated with antidepressants, then it doesn't seem impossible that the two are connected.
IANA sleep expert, but there you have it.
All things considered, I'll stick with ol' Ben Franklin's advice.
OK, here's another perspective. I basically have to use Quickbooks, because it's what my accountant supports (as in, they send someone to my house to help me whenever I have problems). I'm not a full-time bookkeeper, just someone who needs to do some small business accounting, so it's Good Enough for my needs.
Right now, today, I have to maintain a Win2K box or QEMU setup in order to balance my business books. As ugly as it may be, as poorly written as you say it is, as Internet unfriendly as it is, I have to keep Windows around in order to use it. Porting it to Linux would be nothing but good for me, and probably a whole lot of other people.
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Oh, so you're one of those throwbacks that thinks that math is about accuracy, proof, and all that other old-school stuff?
If there's a special pit in hell for evil programmers, then it will probably involve writing GUI code in assembler.
If that's even partially true, then this guy is a jackass. Assembler? That's great (maybe, assuming he can out-optimize a good compiler), but for which chip? Does he have to re-write "all of our software" every time AMD or Intel release a new CPU, or does he just let his customers run the old version which isn't optimized for their processor (thereby defeating the whole purpose)?
If you know what you're doing, and you're smarter than the team who wrote ICC, then hand-tooling a few inner loops is perfectly reasonable. Hand-coding a whole suite of applications, though, points to wholesale toys-in-the-attic OCD-driven insanity.
Sounds to me like they're donating $10B to the children of chip designers, plant architects, and construction workers, so I guess you got your wish.
I've been thinking about this. Does the current kernel source archive still have a list of patches that go back to the original code, so that an interested part could work out who exactly wrote each line of each file?
If so, could he incrementally convert each file by stating that everything he's written is now under the GPLv3, and all new patches must be under that license, then converting each file to "pure v3" when every line has been approved by its respective author or replaced? I'd suspect that quite a few files would probably be "pure" with the signoff of Alan Cox or other high-profile maintainers. Couldn't the rest come along later?
...as has pretty much everyone else, apparently. Whether this provision is good or bad, perhaps some time should be spent rewording it to make its meaning more transparent to the interested reader.
After all, you shouldn't need a lawyer to read a license. Isn't that what we're always criticizing proprietary licenses for? I'm generally a big fan of the FSF, but it seems clear to me that more work needs to be done on this section. No, I can't jump in and offer suggestions; this isn't the kind of thing I'm good at. When multiple intelligent people come up with multiple incompatible interpretations of the same words, though, even I can see a problem.
I couldn't. I stayed awake during enough of my psych class in college to learn that we go through quite a few stages of mental development, and one of the last is the one that lets us understand abstract concepts. Until your brain has reached this stage, no amount of teaching, effort, or desire will let you understand advanced math. It's not that you're too young to have the experience, but that your neural circuitry simply can't support the demands.
That's supposedly a pretty well established and accepted theory. I never went past psych 101, though, so don't take my word for it.
Out of curiosity, what did I do to earn a place on your foes list? I only noticed when I was browsing at -1 (I mod down people who hate me) and your posts popped up.
Why, thank you. That phrase goes back a while, though, to when I was stationed in San Diego and explaining to my roommate why the girl who dumped him was not worth losing sleep over. It caught him so off-guard that he forget to be depressed.